Plan A and Plan B
How Conservatives Can Insist on Restoring Vigorous Federalism
in Order to Save America
By Mercy O’Warren
It’s not working anymore. Americans are divided and hateful politically, and our bloated, over-indebted government is ineffective and failing. We can’t agree on anything and our nation may even break apart over our differences.
That’s because we decide too many things in our federal government, which was intended to decide only national and international issues. States are supposed to govern individuals and groups, deciding issues that 350 million people will never agree on: education, welfare, regulations, criminal laws.
Worse, the original three branches of government have largely been replaced by a vast system of unelected federal bureaucrats. Our lawless, dangerous administrative state unconstitutionally censors and controls us through propaganda, selective prosecution, and interference in elections.
We must return power to the people of the states, where it belongs. We can do this through a group of ten constitutional amendments: a much-needed “Bill of Rightsizing” to downsize our federal government (Plan A).
But if our progressive oligarchs will not agree to Plan A, conservatives must be willing to prepare to peacefully, democratically leave the union of states to form a new constitutional republic (Plan B), while still offering Plan A. The power to negotiate comes from the willingness to walk away from a bad deal: our increasingly unconstitutional and illegitimate federal government. Progressives think we don’t have this power, so they oppress us. But we do.
Preparing for Plan B will greatly increase the chance of success for Plan A. But if progressives still refuse to cooperate, we can restore our republic through Plan B, and then invite the people of other states to rejoin us in our revitalized nation, an irresistibly attractive offer of prosperity and self-determination.
Plan A and Plan B together can restore our constitutional republic.
Americans don’t need a national divorce,
we just need to insist on some personal space
Plan A and Plan B:
How Conservatives Can Insist on Restoring Vigorous Federalism in Order to Save America
By Mercy O’Warren
Illustrated with numerous pre-WWII political cartoons
Published August 2024
Paperback, 396 pages, 6 x 9 inches
ISBN: 9798334614017
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Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814), was a pamphleteer and poet during and after the American Revolution. Leading up to the Revolution, she published poems and plays that criticized royal authorities and urged colonists to resist British trespasses on American rights and liberties.
During the debate over the United States Constitution in 1788, she published a pamphlet under the pseudonym “A Columbian Patriot”: Observations on the new Constitution, in which she farsightedly opposed ratification without the inclusion of a Bill of Rights.
Her other works were published under her own name, unusual for a woman of the time, and she later authored a three-volume history of the Revolution.
Mercy O’Warren is a pseudonym that honors this early American pseudonym-using political author.
